Improvement in hand-rests



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N0,153,653, Patented luly 28,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

HOSEA WILLARD, OF VERGENNES, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK 4 W. (JOE,OF SAME PLAUE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-RESTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,653, dated July28,1874; application filed May 29, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, HOSEA Vergennes, in the county of Addison and Stateof Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand-Rests, ofwhich the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to furnish simple and convenient meansfor supporting the hand of the writer in the operation of book-keeping,combined with a book-slate for making figures or memorandums; andconsists of a combined hand-rest and memorandum-book composed of two ormore leaves or plates hinged together so as to be adjustable as toheight.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an end view. Fig. 2 shows theend of a ledger or account-book and the hand rest applied thereto. Fig.3 is a face view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This handrest and memorandum-book is composed of four-more orless-leaves, slabs or tablets, made of wood or of any suitable material,covered, in whole or in part, with silicate or other composition ormaterial, to render them suitable and convenient for making figures ormemorandums thereon. These leaves or plates are hinged together so thatthey open and close similar to a book. The lower or bed leaf or platemay be thicker than the others, as the hinge-rod is supported thereby.

WILLARD, of

A is the combined hand-rest and book-slate B is the bed leaf or-plate. 0represents the upper leaves or plates. DD are hinged plates attached to.the edges of the bed-leaf B. These plates support the rod E, to whichthe leaves or plates 0 are successively hinged. so as to be folded downonto the bed-leaf, on top of each other, as represented in the drawing.F are the hinges. Gr represents the ledger.

The rest is adjustable, as to thickness, by raising and throwing backone or more of the leaves, as seen in Fig. 3. Any figures or mem:oran'dum which the book-keeper may fillil it necessary to make, or whichhave been made by others, are placed on the under sides of the leaves toprevent erasure; but this is only necessary when the figures ormemoranduins are to be preserved for any length of time.

With this invention the operation of keeping books and making thenecessary figures and memorandums incident thereto is greatlyfacilitated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A hand-rest consisting of a plurality of leaves sohinged' together as to be adjustable to form varying heights of thehand-supporting table, as described.

' HOSEA WILLARD.

Witnesses:

GEORGE R. CHAPMAN, JOHN EROBERTs.

